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Ghosts, Hauntings, Boo! 23 Ghosts, Hauntings, Boo! 23 Sutton double seals Celtic victory Group, say one of the Close's main at Mercat Tours, which conducts visits features will be a recreation of the death- around the vaults says the recording Chris Sutton scored a clinical first- bed scene of a plague-infected family. could be the first actual evidence of half double to keep Celtic on the tails of A spokeswoman said: "We have a psychic phenomena in the vault. Rangers as they won 2-0 victory at lot of evidence about a family called the But Dr Paul Stevens, from Partick. Craigs, the father of which was a grave- Edinburgh University's Koestler The champions had calls for a digger. Parapsychology unit, said: "At one time penalty rejected by referee Kenny Clark "They unfortunately succumbed to someone there thought they were hearing after just six minutes when Sutton went the plague and we have been able to strange sounds, but the wall actually down in the box under the challenge of recreate in great detail their death-bed backed on to a massage parlour and that Kevin McGowne. scene. There is a lot of gruesomeness, but was where the funny noises were coming But Celtic scored from the it is very historically accurate." from." resulting free-kick when Stilian Petrov's There will also be recreations of a corner was flicked on by Joos Valgaeren poor house, town house and the house of Dutch company makes film for before Henrik Larsson's shot was Mary King. Researchers have pieced aliens blocked. together a picture of the life of the Jackie McNamara, however, was wealthy landlord's daughter from details A Dutch film company has made a on hand to drill the ball through a in her will. film to explain what humans are like to crowded goalmouth and Sutton stretched The upper stories of the streets aliens. to divert the ball into the roof of the net were demolished in the 1750s to make Pavlov Media's eight minute from six yards. way for the City Chambers building, but cartoon shows what people are and what Partick were adding to their own the remains of the lower floors stayed they think and feel. problems by making mistakes in defence preserved underground. The makers hope it will be taken and it was David Lilley's failure to clear Small groups of visitors have been into space on a mission in 2007. the ball which cost them another goal in able to tour the hidden streets, but it Pavlov spokesman Cees Wolbers the 33rd minute. wasn't until last year that the council told De Telegraaf the idea behind the The ball came to him in the box decided to the Close into a permanent project was realising how hard it was for after Didier Agathe had ghosted past attraction. Developers hope to attract humans to explain themselves to each Alan Archibald and Kenny Milne, but his 60,000 visitors in its first year. other. clearance went straight to Sutton and he "Imagine then how difficult it coolly curled the ball into the bottom Radio producer may have ghostly would be to explain it to an alien," he corner. voice on tape added. "That¹s why we decided to make a Sutton should have completed his film about it." hat-trick in the 55th minute when A radio producer says she may The film is being shown to the Larsson dummied Lennon's pass for a have captured the voice of a ghost in public at the main library in the city of glorious chance, but he spooned the ball Edinburgh's underground vaults. Groningen where viewers have to lie on a over from eight yards. Debbie McPhail claims to have bench and wear a special helmet to watch Kenny Milne almost pulled one made a recording of a ghoulish voice it. back two minutes later when he spotted hissing the words "get out" or "go away" The aim is to transfer the film to Magnus Hedman off his line, but his lob in Gaelic. CD-ROM and to send it into space with from over 30 yards landed just on top of The voice ruined a recording she the mission taking up the Herschel space the goal. was making with former rugby telescope in 2007. international Norrie Rowan, who owns a 'Plague outbreak' city streets section of the underground city. reopened Mrs McPhail describes herself as "a cynical person by nature" - but says The entrance to a labyrinth of she has no explanation for the ghostly streets beneath Edinburgh has re-opened, voice, reports The Scotsman. more than 350 years after it was sealed She said: "When I was listening off during an outbreak of plague. back to it, I could hear Norrie Rowan Workmen have knocked through chatting and then I heard another voice. It the floor of the city's council was close by to the microphone because headquarters to expose the entrance to you can tell if voices are far away or not. the redeveloped Mary King's Close. I knew it wasn't the presenter or Norrie Local folklore says the narrow because the voice had a slightly Irish 17th century staircase beneath the City accent." Chambers is where the council closed off She added: "When the presenter 400 plague victims to die in 1645. came back up I asked him who they had “The universe was blessed by seven new The ghost of a young girl who died met in the vault and he said nobody. stars when mankind lost seven of their from the disease is still said to haunt the "I asked a colleague who spoke bravest in the quest for scientific area. The redevelopment is due to open at Gaelic and she said they could be saying knowledge. They will always be Easter as a tourist attraction. 'get out' or 'go away'." remembered. Rob McConnell, The ‘X’ Zone Developers, the Continuum Gordon Stewart, assistant director